Saturday, August 1, 2009

Photographic Typologies: Stefan Ruiz

I discovered Stefan Ruiz's typology of rodeo queens over at Toxico Cultura the other day. On his website he writes:

"I went to Las Vegas for the Miss Rodeo USA contest. It was this week of events where at the end a winner is chosen to be kind of the representative for rodeo and cowboy culture, helping to sell agricultural products, things like that. The winner has to sign this agreement where she isn’t going to have a boyfriend for a year. What I liked about the contestants was that although they’re all clearly different people, they almost all had the same expression. They wore the same type of outfit, the same hair."


From "Rodeo Queens"
© Stefan Ruiz



From "Rodeo Queens"
© Stefan Ruiz



From "Rodeo Queens"
© Stefan Ruiz



From "Rodeo Queens"
© Stefan Ruiz



From "Rodeo Queens"
© Stefan Ruiz